(a) 
Except where otherwise provided by law or collective bargaining agreements, the wages and salaries of all persons employed by the City and of all elected officials shall be payable bi-weekly. The pay period may be extended or shortened at the beginning and end of each calendar year at the discretion of the City Treasurer to conform to the City fiscal year.
Wages and salaries earned for services performed during one (1) or more pay periods at the end of any fiscal and calendar year may be disbursed in the fiscal and calendar year immediately following, but such wages and salary payments shall be charged to the appropriation accounts of the fiscal and calendar year in which the services were performed.
(b) 
Nothing herein shall change the procedure established for the payment of salaries and wages of officers and employees of the City as established in § 167.02.
(a) 
The payrolls for the payment of salaries and wages of City officers and employees, except Council members, shall be certified to the City Controller by the department heads, and warrants for the payment thereof shall be drawn on the City Treasurer by the Mayor, payable to the order of the City Payroll Account. The warrants shall be countersigned by the City Controller and delivered to the City Treasurer, who shall deposit the warrants in a depository designated by Council.
(b) 
The City Treasurer shall draw checks upon the City Payroll Account, to the order of each City officer and employee, in the amounts certified as provided in subsection (a) hereof, which checks shall be signed by the City Treasurer and countersigned by the City Controller. The City Treasurer shall then cause the same to be delivered to the parties entitled thereto. Checks drawn on the City Payroll Account may be signed by the facsimile signature of the City Treasurer and the City Controller.